Word: hideaway
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...French Riviera, seeking a country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious Parisian's neighbors learned his identity: ailing Maurice Thorez...
...Perry Como), 3) Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...
...Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt's wartime Maryland hideaway. (Ironically, it was also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served...
...pausing to comment on a favorite Renoir or Rembrandt, and startling the sketching classes. That evening she went to see The Pajama Game. The show, she explained, was her own choice; for weeks she had listened to Princess Margaret's records of Hey There and Hernando's Hideaway, until the tunes "buzzed" in her ears. During the intermission she sipped champagne backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from Cleveland who sat directly behind Her Majesty were almost overwhelmed by it all. "I just leaned over and touched...
...Supermen. In New Bedford, Mass., after police recaptured Jailbreakers Charles Cardoza and Albert Vincent, the prisoners explained that they had not heard police surround their hideaway because they were too absorbed in reading comic books...